A SELECT statement containing these predicates has the following parts. - **ALL**: Assumed if you don't include one of the predicates. The Microsoft Access database engine selects all of the records ...

As described in the topic, [Path Expressions in XQuery](../xquery/path-expressions-xquery.md), an axis step in a path expression includes the following components ...

Abstract: In data warehousing and OLAP applications, scalar-level predicates in SQL become increasingly inadequate to support a class of operations that require set-level comparison semantics, i.e., ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Cardinality estimation (CE) is a process used by the query optimizer to estimate the number of rows returned by a query or sub-part of a query. These estimates ...

To satisfy compliance standards, internal regulations or basic security principles, applications often need to limit a user’s access to only certain rows of data in a database. For example: An oil and ...